PayPerPost Gets $7Million in Funding
So did you think that to advertise on blogs made sense ?
There are many critics , but then PPP believed in the power of promotion in the blogophere and have come to a stage where they have earned everyones envy.
How ?
PayPerPost received $7 million dollars in funding, yup you heard it right.
PayPerPost just got bigger and now like always they have decded to share some green love with us posties.
Ted has announced a 7 day promotion called Lucky 7’s. Between noon today and noon next Tuesday, ppp will be releasing $7k in PPP Opps.
There will be ppp blogging opportunities for $10.77, $70 or $700! It means that they would give you much green for a promotion post in your blog, if you are an approved postie.
Just in case you guys didnt know, PPP acts as a medium between a blogger and a potential advertiser. Its very simple to join them if you have a quality blog going.
You just need a good 3 month old blog and you are ready to join their roll. PPP has done much good to me by opening a earning opportunity and helping me continue with my passion to blog on the topics of mu interest.
I am very happy for ppp and thanks to them i can blog my heart out and not worry about maintainance costs.
Read the Press Release here:
The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored
Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series BDraper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors
ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company’s Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.
“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”
Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.
“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”
To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.